Selected Stories of H. G. Wells

Selected Stories of H. G. Wells

by H. G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/12/2007

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells’s genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.


He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection.


“Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, from the introduction


“Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun.”—Rebecca West


Including these stories:


“A Slip Under the Microscope”

“The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes”

“The Plattner Story”

“Under the Knife”

“The Crystal Egg”

“The New Accelerator”

“The Stolen Body”

“The Argonauts of the Air”

“In the Abyss”

“The Star”

“The Land Ironclads”

“A Dream of Armageddon”

“The Lord of the Dynamos”

“The Valley of Spiders”

“The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham”

“The Man Who Could Work Miracles”

“The Magic Shop”

“Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland”

“The Door in the Wall”

“The Presence by the Fire”

“A Vision of Judgment”

“The Story of the Last Trump”

“The Wild Asses of the Devil”

“Answer to Prayer”

“The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper”

“The Country of the Blind”

ISBN:
9780307431813
9780307431813
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-12-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
H. G. Wells

Herbert George "H. G." Wells (September 21, 1866-August 13, 1946) was an English author, best known for his work in the "speculative fiction" genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics, and social commentary.

Wells is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction," along with Jules Verne. The War of the Worlds was written in the age of British colonialism, and Wells came up with the idea for the story while he and his brother were imagining what might happen if someone came to colonize England the way England had other countries.

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